Lethal Liaisons (Willful Women Assassins Series) (8 page)

He eyed her with interest
as she scanned the names. Her sister sat across the room working on
an unrelated matter.

“Oh my God, Karlee!”
she gasped in horror.

“What's the matter,
sis?”

“Weren't you
listening to what Alexei just said?”

“No, I was
concentrating on this other stuff. What's going on?”

“This is a hit list
of WITSEC people. Take a close look at it!”

Once again, her face turned
pale. She looked up at Alexei with an expression of 'help us'.

“I knew something was
awry when the NSA informed me their initial investigation showed no
history on either of you much before your teenage years. Do you want
to tell
Uncle
Alexei about it?”

“NO!” Karlee
responded. “You're probably the last person we want to have
know anything.”

“Maybe he's actually
the first, Karlee,” Kristie perceived. “If anyone could
resolve our family's horrible dilemma, I'm thinking it's Alexei!”

“Maybe you're right,
sis. Shall we tell him?”

“I think we have
nothing to lose at this point, Karlee.”

“Okay, I was fifteen
when our folks and our aunt had an unfortunate encounter with some
members of the Carboni crime family. They had information that could
implicate them and the government persuaded our parents to help in
what turned out to be a lengthy and well-publicized trial. Major
criminals were incarcerated, and the family has been out for
retribution ever since. After we all changed our last name to
Kingston, Mom and Dad determined it would be safest for us if we both
lived with our aunt as they were the major targets. They became
estranged to us and WITSEC placed us with our aunt in a separate
city. Our mom called it 'tough love' and said that we'd all be
together again in a year or so when the Carbonis were all in jail.
It's now been a lot longer than that and those people are still out
there wreaking havoc on the world. Our aunt has been our surrogate
mother ever since. We haven't had any contact with our parents in
twenty years!” she said, as she began to cry for the first time
in decades. Kristie teared-up, too. Even the insensitive Alexei got a
bit choked up over the display.

“Well, a lot has
changed since then, right? You're now part of a team of elite
assassins yourselves. Who would dare take on such a situation?”
he asked.

“The Carbonis!”
the sisters answered in unison.

“Perhaps the best
defense is an offense,” he pondered out loud.

“What do you mean?”

“Let's finish the
government's job for them and wipe out the rest of the crime family.
Maybe we can even get paid to do it,” he added with a wry
smile. “If no one is left to pursue that retribution you
mentioned, you and your parents can be reunited!”

“Count us in!
Randolph can help us, too!” Kristie exclaimed, with the color
coming back into both sisters' faces.

“Janine will help,
too,” he said. “Plus, there are a few others I can count
on for such an endeavor. I'll put the wheels in motion and start
gathering information as to the family's habits and weaknesses. You
two get in touch with Randolph and Janine and bring them up to date.”

A week later Alexei and the
rest of the group met in Chicago for a final planning session.

“Here's what I have
so far,” he informed the gathering. “There are four
family members we need to focus on: Carboni's daughter Carlotta, her
husband, her brother and her son. The brother has a gambling problem,
the husband has a mistress, and the son is into drugs and loose
women. Carlotta is the most vicious of them and is said to enjoy
toying with her victims with various means of torture before she
kills them. She is the one who runs the family and still uses the
Carboni family name. Perhaps she married a cousin; I don't know the
particulars there. She controls a drug cartel in Detroit and theirs
is the only Italian family in the group. She's been losing her grip
on power, as none of the other families either like her or trust her.
The family's estate is very tight on security. How do you people
think we should approach this?”

“I think her
weakening power grip may be her most vulnerable point,” said
Karlee. “Maybe we could make the other cartel members think
that she's out to intimidate them into giving her more control and a
bigger percentage of the business. With the proper motivation, they
might take her out for us.”

“Oh, I like that
plan,” said Kristie. The others were in agreement.

“That sounds good.
The icing on the cake is that I've gotten us a contract on her, so we
will be getting paid to bring her down,” said Alexei. They all
marveled at the good news.

It was determined to start
the intimidation ruse with the family that had the weakest security.
Although the parents were away, the teenage son was known to be at
home with his girlfriend. The sisters wore their usual hoods as they
entered the home. The others stood guard outside. They found the
young couple enjoying the parents' king-size bed.

“Get out of that bed,
you two!” one of them ordered.

The pair looked up from
their carnal activity in stunned disbelief.

Kristie tore off the
blanket covering them. “We said get up!” she shouted, as
the two black-clad and hooded sisters pointed their weapons at them.

The frightened twosome
complied and cowered nude in front of them.

“Make your peace with
God. Mrs. Carboni sends her regards.”

“My parents will
double whatever she is paying you!” claimed the nervous lad.

“Carlotta is very
generous.” Karlee made up a number and said, “She is
paying us fifty grand a head.”

“We can double that,
I promise,” he stated in a trembling voice.

“Get down on all
fours, young man,” she ordered. She wanted him to feel
humiliated in front of his lady to ensure the family's displeasure
with Carlotta.

He complied.

“Now whinny like a
horse!”

Again the scared kid
obeyed.

“Sweet cheeks, get on
his back and go for a ride.” She then ripped a cord from the
drapery. “Here, wrap this around his neck while you ride the
horsie around the room and while he tells us how he's going to make
payment!”

The sisters enjoyed the
show as he tried to speak while choking and giving his girlfriend a
ride around the room.

“Okay, we believe
you. We'll be in touch with you later about our money. Be smart and
don't even think about disappointing us!”

From there the group went
to another of the cartel's family households. This time there was a
poker game in progress as they slipped in through a back window.
Again, the hooded pair was totally unexpected.

“Everybody on the
floor!” shouted one of the sisters.

This time they met with
more resistance.

“Who the frig are
YOU?”

“Carlotta sent us.
She wants to remind you who's in charge. Now get down on your knees!”

“Well, well, well,”
said Karlee. “Look who we have here.” They were careful
to never use one another's names on missions.

“Oh my, oh my, oh
my,” said Kristie with a clear tone of excitement in her voice.
“I do believe it's Mr. Sinclair!”

As she moved toward Sonny,
one of the other poker players pulled out a gun. Karlee promptly
fired a silenced round into his chest. Kristie now routinely carried
a serrated knife on her belt on all missions and began to reach for
it.

“Drop your pants, Mr
Sinclair.” she ordered, drawing the sharp weapon from its comfy
home.

“Fuck you!”
came the response.

Karlee fired a round into
his leg. “You'd better do as my partner says mister.”

“To hell with you
damn bitches!” he shouted as he reached for his own gun.

Pfft Pfft were the next
sounds as Kristie merrily placed two rounds into his crotch.

The remaining men backed
away and raised their hands into the air.

“We'll let the rest
of you live and leave you with a message. Carlotta Carboni is to be
obeyed without question from now on. She also wants a larger
percentage of the profits. She feels this is fair. Do you agree?”

They all nodded in unison
as the hooded pair made sure each was disarmed and then backed out of
the room.

When the team regrouped
outside the home, Karlee said “I think Carlotta Carboni is
going to be in for some interesting times and very soon, too.”

They all laughed as they
departed the scene.

A few days later, the
Carboni family rode together to attend a family funeral. One of the
guards had been paid off to look the other way as a bomb was planted
under the car during the service. It was set to go off when its
signal receiver came within a hundred feet of a radio transmitter
which was placed at the cemetery exit. There would be four more
funerals.

The movie that the sisters
had both performed in turned out to be a bigger hit than anyone had
expected. It soared to number one in the rankings. There was talk of
a sequel. Kristie was offered a new job from the people who had
released her earlier when she had gotten pregnant. She declined with
a few choice words.

Soon both sisters were
nominated for Oscars for their stellar performances as rogue
government agents saving the little guys. The night of the awards
ceremony, the popular pair sat with Randolph at a table with other
members of the cast. Lots of fans stopped by the table to offer their
support and congratulations.

As the evening wore on, the
emcee announced the various winners. Everyone applauded accordingly.
The girls anxiously awaited their moment, anticipating how cool it
would be if both could win, and hoping that at least one of them
would. When the emcee began discussing their film, there was some
disorder and confusion behind the speaker as he leaned toward the
microphone.

“For this next award,
we have a rather unusual situation, folks.”

The sisters looked at one
another perplexed.

“This time we have
very special circumstances. Our next winners have been separated from
their parents for more than twenty years because of a witness
protection situation. I'm thrilled to be able to announce that that
condition has now been resolved. Mr. and Mrs. Kingston, would you
please come out on stage and make the presentation for your daughters
Karlee and Kristie?”

“Girls, will you both
come to the podium now please?”

The entire audience went
wild with enthusiastic excitement and gave the parents and sisters a
standing ovation. Both girls began to cry as they rose from their
seats and ran up to the stage.

It was a long overdue
reunion. The ecstatic, proud parents presented the awards, followed
by lots of hugging and sobbing. The girls decided to keep their
clandestine endeavors a secret, determined to instead focus their
futures on their acting careers.

Titles by
Randall S. Smith

About SAM
, a fast-paced page turner, tells of a
housewife confronted with various family issues while she’s
busy working as a secret agent for the Department of Homeland
Security, saving the free world from al-Qaeda’s misdeeds.

Awkward Accommodations
– a middle-aged mom with an
inactive sex-life becomes obligated to seduce a younger
mercenary-assassin couple. Before the night is over, things become
even more awkward for her. There is also a hit contract put out for
an entire family.

Back to World War II
is a historical-fiction.
It’s based on my late father’s war memoirs of his
experiences in New Guinea and other areas, with a dose of my
imaginative fiction added for fun.

In
Blake Industries
we find a willful woman who
has made her fortune by divorcing husbands, while another is a
‘person of interest’ in several suspicious suicides. A
corporate jet gets into trouble, another Ponzi scheme is discovered,
and a romance flourishes.

Chloe’s Choice –
a
short
story of a Vietnam era romance
as told from the woman’s perspective.

Colorado Cabin
-
A
sexually-oriented tale of a high school senior abducted by a
retarded, former mental patient with a history of sexual deviancy. A
team of three mercenaries is on their way to rescue her, two women
and a man, with some deviant ideas of their own. This story is a
sequel to 'Renée's Revenge'. There are bisexual and
lesbian-oriented passages.

Guardians
-
A group of young American astronauts working
on a top-secret project from Area 51 make first contact in this
exciting and fun read.

Just
Rewards -
bank robbery in the sixties. A young woman teller is kidnapped.

Lethal Ladies
- A sexual tale of a group of assassin-mercenaries, their missions,
romances and sex lives. Some segments bisexual or of a lesbian
nature. Volume 7 in the assassins series.

Lethal
Liaisons
- Two look-alike sisters grow up in the country's heartland.
Starting out with careers in law and modeling, they evolve into
assassins.

Lost in
Space-Time
- Young astronauts discover how to fold space and travel great
distances in a very short period of time. They encounter aliens and
later come upon a young, kidnapped Earth woman.

Micky
Mallet, P.I.
is a mystery which has us meeting both an ex-cop private
investigator, and a female black ops agent with a license to kill.
There are several suspicious deaths when an egocentric billionaire
desires the wife of a powerful politician.